Jobs in Sydney, Australia for US citizens?

Just wondering. I'll probably wind up trading my own accounts, but are there any trading outfits, hedge funds, etc. in the land down under -- does anyone really call it that? -- for folks there 1-3 years from the US?

Hmmm. Thanks for the observations. And let me assure you that I shall arrive with the high degree of humility and respect that I bring to all foreign countries I visit. It's unfortunate that the ugly American syndrome is still alive. I'll endeavor to prove that it is changing.

Hmmm. Thanks for the observations. And let me assure you that I shall arrive with the high degree of humility and respect that I bring to all foreign countries I visit. It's unfortunate that the ugly American syndrome is still alive. I'll endeavor to prove that it is changing.

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not only that. but you are relatively poor with the crumbling $US dollar

Tell me about it! I spent last summer in London and felt like the dollar was a third world currency. Maybe it's pegged to the Zimbabwe dollar nowadays or something. Ah, the price of low interest rates at home.

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not only that. but you are relatively poor with the crumbling $US dollar

Absolutley amazing for a British colony to have citizens with attitudes such as this...Whatever happened? This mentality that some backwoods Australians seem to echo and fight to never change from hatred to love. We have the same sort of people in the USA...

Tell me about it! I spent last summer in London and felt like the dollar was a third world currency. Maybe it's pegged to the Zimbabwe dollar nowadays or something. Ah, the price of low interest rates at home.

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not only that. but you are relatively poor with the crumbling $US dollar

[Jean Yves], the Malagasy cruise-ship employee, finds that in many ports, the 1996 series bills are discounted by as much as 15%, if they're accepted at all. He and his fellow crewmen complain to their bosses, he says, but to no avail. "They say to me, 'This is your pay -- take it or don't,'" said Jean Yves, who, for fear of losing his job, spoke on the condition that neither his family name nor his employer's name be published.

Jean Yves would likely have fared far worse at the city's legal money-changers. The currency-exchange window at the Banque Malgache de l'Ocean Indien, part of Groupe BNP Paribas, doesn't take $100 bills at all. "If we take it here, the goal is to resell it," says Hanitra Rasoanaivo, a customer-service manager. "But the Malagasy and foreign tourists don't want $100 bills."